Picoult tours internationally promoting her books and is a sought-after speaker. Jodi Picoult and her husband, Tim van Leer, whom she met while at Princeton and married in , have three grown children and live in Hanover, N. The Picoult Papers document the author's work process, with extensive notes and correspondence concerning plot ideas, character development, and the intersection of fiction and realism. Her early career is represented by handwritten and typed pages and drafts from stories Picoult wrote as a college student, including two stories accepted by Seventeen magazine for publication during her senior year, along with correspondence with her editor and copies of the issues in which they appeared.
There are partial and complete drafts of several of the novels, including sets of pages with comments from the author's experts and other consultants, and pages marked with Picoult's own notes.
Smaller parts of the collection include scrapbooks assembled by Picoult containing clippings and other mementoes from some of the author's early novels, and promotional materials, book reviews, and published profiles. Picoult's own publications are represented by a comprehensive collection of American and foreign-language editions of her novels; her earliest published work, which appeared while she was still in college; the five Wonder Woman stories she wrote for DC Comics, and more.
The correspondence in this series is of a general nature and not connected to Picoult's work on individual novels, although some of it pertains to author events and publicity. It is arranged chronologically. Correspondents include editors, publicists, and other publishing colleagues, readers, and fellow writers including Chris Bohjalian and Picoult's mentor, Mary Morris.
A few assorted, unidentified notes round out this series. Organized by work according to first publication date, and comprising the greater part of the collection, this series includes a range of material related to Picoult's creative process: plotting and research notes, correspondence with her wide network of experts and friends, files of research materials on an array of topics, transcripts of interviews with her consultants, and drafts and partial drafts of her novels. Most of the correspondence is in the form of printed emails, often with notes written by hand on the page.
Also here are drafts of stories Picoult wrote for college fiction-writing classes, including multiple drafts and editorial notes and correspondence, the report from her readers on her creative senior thesis, and the early published stories that started her career. Several of Picoult's novels are not represented here. The works represented in this series by a small miscellany of material are those for which Picoult served as a co-creator or contributor. These include two musical plays for teenagers for which Picoult wrote or co-wrote the book and lyrics; the young adult novel Between the Lines , written with her daughter, Samantha van Leer; and some essays written for other publications.
This series consists chiefly of articles and clippings -- book reviews, feature stories, and profiles of Picoult -- from a vast assortment of local, national, and international publications. There are also some promotional materials such as press kits, press releases, and marketing items for bookstores.
A small amount of movie publicity material is also included, as are a few memorabilia. Most of this material is arranged chronologically, followed by the memorabilia, and then by a smattering of hardback and paperback book covers, mainly in proof versions, organized alphabetically by title. Arranged chronologically, the photographs include publicity photographs from various stages of Picoult's career, including contact sheets from a photo shoot for the cover of her first novel; photographs taken during author appearances; and snapshots taken by Picoult herself in the course of her research.
A few photographs are also found with correspondence in Series 1. Audiovisual material consists of materials connected to Picoult's research, most notably numerous microcassette recordings of interviews Picoult conducted also represented in Series 2 by transcripts. There are also, on various formats, some interviews with Picoult. Finally, there are four scrapbooks, assembled by Picoult, containing material such as clippings, letters, and mementoes related to several of the author's early novels.
Published works by Jodi Picoult are separated, as are full-length works Picoult used in the course of her research. The Outsiders by S. Joseph Galliano contributed essay Series 1: General correspondence and notes. Series 2: Writings. Series 3: Collaborations and contributions. Series 4: Reviews, publicity, and marketing. Series 5: Photographs and audiovisual. Notes--assorted, unidentified. Series 2. Early and student work. Early and student work--creative writing class stories.
Early and student work--"Keeping Count" drafts and correspondence. Early and student work--"Road Stop" drafts and correspondence.
Early and student work--senior thesis notes on grading. Early and student work--Seventeen magazine. Harvesting the Heart. Harvesting the Heart--correspondence.
Harvesting the Heart--notes, plot. Harvesting the Heart--notes. Harvesting the Heart--research and notes. Harvesting the Heart--draft, partial. Harvesting the Heart--draft. Harvesting the Heart--draft and correspondence.
Picture Perfect. Picture Perfect--correspondence. Picture Perfect--notes. Picture Perfect--research and notes, archeology.
Picture Perfect--research and notes, battered women. Picture Perfect--research and notes, Los Angeles. Picture Perfect--research and notes, Sioux history. Picture Perfect--research and notes, modern Sioux. Picture Perfect--layouts. Mercy--research and notes, plot. Mercy--notes, "Next one! My Better Half"? Mercy--research and notes, floral. Mercy--research and notes, legal. Mercy--research and notes, medical.
Mercy--research and notes, police. Mercy--research and notes, Scotland. Mercy--research and notes, Scotland: Jacobean uprising. The Pact. The Pact--Correspondence: Giaccone. The Pact--Correspondence: Goodhart. The Pact--Correspondence: Greene. The Pact--Correspondence: Gross. The Pact--Correspondence: Keating. The Pact--Correspondence: Lubrano. The Pact--Correspondence: Spaulding. The Pact--Correspondence: unidentified and miscellaneous. The Pact--research and notes.
The Pact--research and notes: depression and suicide. The Pact--research interviews: transcripts. The Pact--draft.
Keeping Faith. Keeping Faith--correspondence: Cluverius. Keeping Faith--correspondence: Fagen. Keeping Faith--correspondence: Goodhart. Keeping Faith--correspondence: Greene. Keeping Faith--correspondence: Holbrook. Keeping Faith--correspondence: Taylor. Keeping Faith--correspondence: Umlas. Keeping Faith--correspondence: Veresan.
Keeping Faith--correspondence: Zerbarini. Keeping Faith--research and notes. Keeping Faith--research materials, atheism and agnosticism. Keeping Faith--research and notes, Bible passages. Keeping Faith--research and notes, literary quotations.
Keeping Faith--research and notes, religious belief: feminine and feminist. Keeping Faith--research and notes, religious belief: God. Keeping Faith--research and notes, religious belief: Judaism. Keeping Faith--research and notes, religious visions.
Keeping Faith--research interviews: transcripts. Keeping Faith--draft, partial. Plain Truth. Plain Truth--correspondence: Anfang. Plain Truth--correspondence: Horner. Plain Truth--correspondence: Jerchau. Plain Truth--correspondence: Kaye. Plain Truth--correspondence: Kraybill. Plain Truth--correspondence: Laird. Plain Truth--correspondence: Lewis. Plain Truth--correspondence: Marshall. Plain Truth--correspondence: Martin. Plain Truth--correspondence: Schouten. Plain Truth--correspondence: Sheftel.
Plain Truth--correspondence: Stoltzfus. Plain Truth--correspondence: Toub. Plain Truth--correspondence: Umlas. Plain Truth--research and notes, plot. Plain Truth--research and notes, Amish. Plain Truth--research and notes, ghosts.
Plain Truth--research and notes, medical examiner. Plain Truth--research and notes, neonaticide. Plain Truth--research and notes, secret childbirth. Plain Truth--research and notes, trip to Lancaster.
Plain Truth--research interviews: transcripts. Plain Truth--research interviews, Lancaster: transcripts. Salem Falls. Salem Falls--correspondence: Atria Books.
Salem Falls--correspondence: Farina. Salem Falls--correspondence: Horner. Salem Falls--correspondence: Ives. Salem Falls--correspondence: Keating. Salem Falls--correspondence: Mapson. Salem Falls--correspondence: Martin. Salem Falls--correspondence: Moran. Salem Falls--correspondence: Picoult. Salem Falls--correspondence: Scheiner. Salem Falls--correspondence: Schiermeier. Salem Falls--correspondence: Sternick. Salem Falls--correspondence: Toub. Salem Falls--correspondence: Umlas. Salem Falls--correspondence: Wiggs.
Salem Falls--research and notes, plot. Salem Falls--notes. Salem Falls--research correspondence, trivia and facts. Salem Falls--research and notes, "The Crucible". Salem Falls--research and notes, DNA. Salem Falls--research and notes, diner. Salem Falls--research and notes, legal. Salem Falls--research and notes, police info. Salem Falls--research and notes, "psych. Salem Falls--research and notes, sexual assault. Salem Falls--research and notes, "trivia".
Salem Falls--research and notes, trivia: "Jeopardy! Salem Falls--research and notes, witchcraft. Salem Falls--research interviews: transcripts.
Salem Falls--publisher's style sheet. Perfect Match. Perfect Match--correspondence: Arrick. Perfect Match--correspondence: Bengtson. Perfect Match--correspondence: Daviss. Perfect Match--correspondence: Fagen. Perfect Match--correspondence: Gross. Perfect Match--correspondence: Horner. Perfect Match--correspondence: Mapson. Perfect Match--correspondence: Martin. She read Green Angel next. And then, one day, she pulled The Probable Future off my bookshelf. Now Alice has another fan for life.
I hope that moms who have read me forever will share Between the Lines with their daughters. And that you have as much fun reading it as Sammy and I had writing it. Yes, hopefully bound for Broadway! We had a sell-out, critically-lauded show at Kansas City Repertory Theater and we are waiting to hear our next steps. We perform with a cast of forty and all proceeds to to charity.
So if you are a teen who likes acting and singing, or a drama teacher or director looking for a fun, funny musical instead of the same old repertoire, check it out!
Sammy and I wanted to know, too…which is why we wrote the sequel this summer. We hope to see it published next spring! We had so many readers ask what happened to Oliver — and frankly, we wanted to know too. And that you have as much fun reading them as Sammy and I had writing it. We perform with a cast of forty and all proceeds fo to charity. I am in excellent company. I believe in the freedom to read anything and everything. I also think, sadly, that some parents who oppose high schools teaching a book like My Sister's Keeper believe that their children have never seen a swear word in print, or watched a movie with a violence or sex scene — or in other words, they are sorely out of touch with their own kids.
Why not instead read the book along with your child, and use it as a springboard for discussion about some of these tough or sensitive subjects? Now - that said - I also believe that forty different movies could have been made from that single book! This was just one of the options. Plain Truth fared a little better for die-hard fans of the novel, because it followed the book much more closely than The Pact.
It was the highest rated Lifetime movie of , so apparently a lot of other people enjoyed it too. Plus, it was great fun for my family to have a cameo as an Amish family. I really enjoyed the adaptation of The Tenth Circle — the acting was top notch and the director, Peter Markle, was intent on making sure that when you watch it, you are left with the same feeling you have when you read the book — and ultimately, it works beautifully as a cautionary tale about teen sexuality.
But so far, the studios that have looked at it are too scared to show a school shooting on screen — although psychiatrists have shown that rather than inspire copycat violence, that sort of story might actually create discussion about bullying, and ultimately reduce it.
Some are available on iTunes. Starring Julia Roberts and Viola Davis. There was a lot of wonderful stuff in the movie version — most notably the performances, which I really enjoyed and by which I was really moved. But the ending IS different. Although the director had indicated that he was going to keep my ending, in the end he did not hold true to his word. And if you think YOU were disappointed, well, you can imagine how I felt.
However, the movie was a success for me, because it drove hundreds of thousands of new readers to my book — which hit the bestseller list again.
Should you watch the movie? Oh, and did I mention Alice Hoffman? Hang on while I get on my soapbox. I hate being pigeonholed. We know that women read both male and female authors; men tend to read only male authors. This is all part of gender inequity in publishing, something that has been proven by a group called VIDA, which annually crunches numbers to see how many review outlets review books by women, women of color, nonbinary folks, writers with disabilities, etc.
How do we combat gender bias in publishing? The way we grow as people is to listen to those whose points of view differ from our own. After he received two book reviews in one week from the NYT, I tweeted a fact, that the NYT tends to review male authors two days a week Sunday and weekday — twice as often as it typically reviews female authors.
This is suspicious since the majority of book buyers are women. Jennifer Weiner, a wonderful, outspoken author, immediately came to my defense. And we both go out of our way to promote unknown writers— blurbing their books, blogging and tweeting about them. Furthermore, Mr. Franzen actually agreed with us, stating that women writers do not get the same sort of coverage that men do. The moral of this story? I believe that there is some really bad literary fiction out there, and some really brilliant commercial fiction, and that these are pretty arbitrary lines that have been drawn by the panelists who judge the National Book Awards, for example.
Let's just say I am the world's worst friend. Tell me something and it's likely to end up in a character's mouth. A disagreement I had with my husband became a pivotal scene in The Pact.
For Perfect Match , I'd go to breakfast in the morning, take notes on what my kids said, and then go upstairs and transform their voices into the character of Nathaniel. I usually draw a plot out of thin air, but pepper the book with real-life conversations I have had in different contexts. My friends tell me that it's really strange to be reading one of my books and to find one's life sprawled across the page… What the heck did you mean by the end of Keeping Faith?
Orange Is The New Black. Queer Eye. In fact, Janet Evanovich used to live in my hometown but I only met her once although we did share a cleaning lady several years ago! I am fortunate to count some terrific authors among my friends, but they are people that I've met through various speaking engagements or chance meetings.
For the most part, however, writing is a very solitary process. Oh, you'd know it. Real writers can't sleep because there are stories batting around inside their heads. Real writers create characters they weep over, because they are so real. Real writers can't NOT write. DO IT. Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out. Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith… talent is the smallest part of it one need only read some of the titles on the NYT Bestseller list to see that… : If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in the publishing world take a chance on you?
I don't believe that you need an MFA to be a writer, but I do think you need to take some good workshops. These are often offered through writer's groups or community colleges. You need to learn to write on demand, and to get critiqued without flinching. When someone can rip your work to shreds without it feeling as though your arm has been hacked off, you're ready to send your novel off to an agent. There's no magic way to get one of those - it took me longer to find my wonderful agent than it did to get published!
I suggest the Literary Marketplace , or another library reference material. Keep sending out your work and don't get discouraged when it comes back from an agent - just send it out to a different one. All of this will make you a better writer. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it. What a brick-and-mortar publisher brings you is the marketing and connections to bring attention to your book — not to mention placement in stores for foot traffic.
Plus, think about the great success stories of e-publishing. Amanda Hocking and E. James had plenty of success with their e-books and plenty of people knew they existed.
But they all chose to also sign a traditional publishing contract. Now, there are times when self-publishing or publishing on demand makes sense. Say you have a great story and you want it on paper and you want your closest friends and family to read it. Definitely self publish, and print the number of copies you want.
There is a trend in publishing now where editors are literally trolling for successful ebooks they can then sign as traditional authors with hard copies. So get out there and canvass to sell your book. Go to libraries and meet with book clubs. Get word of mouth going. Go to literary festivals. Make your book the buzz of the town, so that someone in publishing takes note.
First, I have plenty of my own stories to write first! For that reason I always encourage people to write their own stories. THEN you can decide whether or not you want to publish it — or find a ghost writer to help you polish it.
I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book… you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.
The best part of this web site is the accessibility fans have to me via email. Please email me and tell me what you thought of the book you read! The letters come right to me, and I always answer. I wish I could…but I can't honor every request, and it's not fair to pick some instead of others. I used to compromise with phone chats, but then a magazine mentioned that and I had to quit, after scheduling fifty in one weekend.
However, if your book club discusses one of my books and has any lingering questions, you can email me see above and I will do my best to answer them. And I LOVE meeting entire book groups at my signings - if you schedule a field trip to one of my events, you can ask me all your questions in person there! I do, but unfortunately, I have to charge a pretty hefty amount for my time. Book donations can be requested by contacting Susan Corcoran , at Random House.
Donations are made at the discretion of the publisher. Toggle navigation. Laura remembers a year-old who was 'driven, smart, lots of high energy, down to earth, very impressive'. These days, Jodi sends her each chapter as soon as she's happy with it.
But the earliest piece of writing she showed her was her college thesis about a student who kept dropping out of school. That's what she's so good at. Portraying her characters without judging them. Her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale, was written when she was a young mother stuck at home with three children under the age of three.
I'd type at swimming classes. When my husband came home from work I would throw the children at him and start working. From 5. And that's how I did it. It seems very impressive, when I look back on it. To begin with, the novels were by no means an overnight success. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them.
I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture, and that is a hard thing to go up against for any writer. Did she think about giving up? I don't think anyone even knew I was writing until I'd written a good five or six books. And it wasn't until the ninth or 10th book that I hit the bestseller list.
Picoult's sales figures aren't just about the time-honoured ability to tell a bloody good story. They're also about business and the revolutionary changes the publishing industry has undergone in the past decade: the end of the Net Book Agreement, the sale of novels in supermarkets and the emergence of book clubs. Every year Ross has books to read which must be whittled down to 10 for inclusion on the Channel 4 show. Her husband came down the stairs at 10am and asked, 'How many have you got through?
It was My Sister's Keeper. I couldn't put it down. I broke all my rules and read it from cover to cover. The ending made me scream. They can ask themselves: what would I do in the same situation? Big publishers can afford lucrative space at the front of the bookshop and include her in three-for-two deals. They can also offer discounts to supermarkets. By plundering her back-list, they've published a new book every four months, each one with a huge ad campaign.
It's all about continuity. Who can they sell who will last? If you can find an author who represents a set of values and expectations and can deliver every time, you've taken all the uncertainty out of publishing. Jodi Picoult has done just that. She's still ignored by the literary press. Or worse, slated.
But she has developed, she says, a thick skin. I will never be thought of in the same way as someone like Joyce Carol Oates, though I'm more prolific and probably read by more people,' she says.
But the best revenge is when I end up top of their bestseller list. Which happens all the time. Her next book is about a man on death row who wants to donate his heart to the sister of his victim. The one after that is about a mother who sues her handicapped child for wrongful birth. No one ever said it was a breeze being inside a Jodi Picoult novel. As for the author, she's happiest when she's typing at the top of the house. She's already rubbed the letters off two sets of keyboards.
It doesn't look like she's about to stop any time soon. The great unknown. She's the queen of the book club, Britain's biggest-selling female author, who also tops the New York Times bestseller list. But just who is Jodi Picoult? And why is she ignored by the literary establishment?
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